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jeanpierre

And another thing, if we've cleared out enough cap space with Brees' contract extension...

And, if we're now cutting useless player(s) who's limiting success of this team regardless of cap impact...

And, if we're gonna spend two draft picks to move up and grab a player that is highly valued...

Then, we should be willing to cut Byrd who's been rarely available and move on to the Vonn Bell era...

dizzle88

So, any reason as to why this has happened?

Payton should really do his homework before working to sign players.

Yeah Drew was the injured player that turned into a superstar, but after that we've signed Byrd and Spiller both injured. Byrd is flat out terrible and needs to be benched, Spiller never got a chance to prove he was healthy.

We literally have no direction, this team gives out big contracts and then gives up on that player the following season.

hagan714

wow that was a year ahead of scheduled and kinda stupid. 2017 offered cap savings.

Byrd is now number one on my cut for cap list in 2017, followed by Zac

jeanpierre

Zac? Strief? Hagan, granted he's not what he was two years ago, but he's still steady and going to provide a level of protection better than twenty other right tackles in the league...

And until we've got something better, Go get'em Strief!

K Major

Former Saints RB C.J. Spiller 'didn't see it coming,' he tells ESPN | NOLA.com

dizzle88

Something is seriously wrong with Payton/Loomis, this happens far too often.

I'm surprised that Byrd hasn't been released yet, he hasn't been near a pass since his time with Buffalo.

Halo

After Delvin went down, don't ya'll think Sean Peyton did this to create a roster spot? They could barely fit Spiller in last weekend.

neugey

To me, the failure occurred at end of preseason. Why did we need 5 tailbacks on a 53-man roster? You only use 1 tailback per play (on very rare occasions 2 tailbacks if you want to run a gun split set).

If we felt had to keep to keep Lasco active and putting him on PS was not something we wanted to do/risk, then the Spiller/Cadet decision should have been made before week 1.

I see Cadet as someone who is low cost and low upside. It would be unlikely that another team would pick him up if we cut him. He is the type of guy we could safely cut and if some major injuries struck could re-sign if needed.

Conversely, Spiller has financial implications and I'm willing to bet some team will pick him up in the next 2 weeks.

Honestly, if Spiller kills it for another team and Cadet underwhelms, this might sour me on Payton/Loomis completely.

jeanpierre

Here's where I think alot of fans, including our own brotherhood/sisterhood here, don't get...

Take the example of Travaris Cadet; he's not a top running back, but he's a multi-purpose player, wearing hats on kick coverage, kick return, pass protection, screen plays; and while he may not be the fastest or quickest, he's on-time to meetings, rarely misses an assignment during games and isn't out getting DUIs...

That is a rare commodity folks and his value is in opening depth at other positions because of his multi-faceted role; many beat up Scott Shanle because he'd take the heat for coverage failures when it was often the Safety not picking up on the exchange - but I'd bet many of his critics privately would take him back in an instant the past two, three seasons compared to what we had more recently...

Spiller couldn't win the KR/PR role from Murphy and he was third behind Ingram and Hightower; now I thought Spiller offered more than Hightower so that tells me there was some other on-field issue (i.e. pass protection? route reads?) that kept him behind Ingram and Hightower...

So where do you keep a guy like that when you only have two spots at nearly every other scrimmage position with WR, DB, RB only offering multiples?

Again, we should have been addressing Guard, Defensive End, Defensive Tackle these past three seasons and we're still left wanting...

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...